return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down13
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoAs someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
minus-squarekelpie_is_trying@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoAs someone from the south; we were not. I was lucky enough to have a cousin with an anti-authority complex and internet access, but most of my classmates were not.
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThe “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.
As someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
As someone from the south; we were not. I was lucky enough to have a cousin with an anti-authority complex and internet access, but most of my classmates were not.
The “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
I mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.